Universities and colleges were slow to recognize the teaching of dramatic literature and playwriting as fields of study, but in 1904 Professor George Pierce Baker (1866-1935) began a playwriting class at Radcliffe College. The next year it was offered at Harvard (all-female Radcliffe's brotherschool) as "English 47: The Forms of the Drama." Baker's class attracted Eugene O'Neill and Edward Sheldon, among others, before Baker, unable to convince Harvard of the viability of a drama program, moved to New Haven and helped establish the Yale School of Drama. One of Baker's students, Frederick Koch, moved to the University of North Dakota in 1905 to teach theater, and the next year an acting course was taught at the University of Wisconsin. Baylor University in Texas had a technical production course as early as 1901; in fact, the "little theater" movement was to a large degree sponsored by America's...